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Dr. Lee Kaplan, an obesity researcher at Harvard, says there is no diet or weight-loss regimen that is guaranteed to work but that people can often maintain a loss of 5percentt of their weight, which is enough for health benefits to kick in.
Almost twenty percent (19.6%) of subjects in the 9 11-year follow-up category maintained a weight loss of at least 5% of their initial mass while 10.9 11-yearound to maintain a loss of 10% or more.
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Between 12 and 14percentt had maintained a loss of more than 100 pounds.
A 15 to 19percentt loss was associated with a 37percentt lower risk, and those who maintained a loss of 20percentt or more had a 53percentt lower risk.
In contrast, studies show that 10 years after the most commonly performed bariatric operation, called gastric bypass, patients on average have maintained a loss of 60percentt of their excess weight.
Overall, during the 12-month maintenance period, 41% (24/58) of participants maintained a loss of ≥ 5% of initial weight and 43% (25/58) had a <3% change in weight.
As can be seen on Table 2, after 2 years, 43.6% of the subjects were found to maintain a weight loss of at least 5% of their initial body mass, whereas 29.1% maintained a loss of 10% or more.
Five to eleven years after they had participated in the program 29.1% of all women maintained a weight loss of at least 5%, while 14.3% maintained a loss of at least 10%.
For example, Sarlio-Lahteenkorva and colleagues have recently reported that after 6 and 15-year follow-ups, only 5,1% of all women maintained a loss of at least 5% of their baseline body weight [ 7].
A recent follow-up of individuals who had successfully completed a popular commercial program has shown that 42.6% of the subjects still maintained a 5% weight loss after five-year, while 18.8% maintained a loss of 10% or more [ 12].
The weight goal is to achieve and maintain a weight loss of 7% of baseline body weight in a gradual stepwise fashion.
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